1. Camilo Huinca, a.k.a. ONLY JOKE
Working under the name ONLYJOKE, Camilio Hunica is a Chilean visual artist and designer whose work we’ve enjoyed for a long time. His practice straddles art, design, and object making (check out his salt and pepper grinders) – exploring the boundary where a piece can be both functional and emotional. Camilo's pieces are characterised by his use of vibrant colours and rich graphic content; we’re especially drawn to this recent large-scale artwork (acrylic on canvas, 160cm x 200cm) where he juxtaposes two of his bold visual styles next to each other.
2. Emily Gernild
Based in Copenhagen, Emily Gernild is a Danish artist whose paintings reimagine classical still life traditions, creating vibrant, contemporary tableaux that weave in personal narratives. This incredible work by Emily caught our eye recently – at a huge 1.3m x 5m long and painted with watercolour on sailcloth, it was created to hang in front of a huge skylight at Olso’s Vigeland Museum. Take a look at Emily’s Instagram feed to see a video of it being drawn up over the skylight – it looks absolutely stunning.
3. Rosie Harbottle
Using a palette of rich colours, brush strokes, texture and mark-making, British artist Rosie Harbottle creates colourful, poetic pieces that celebrate the natural world. Working from her studio on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, her beautiful paintings, like this piece – ‘Waiting For First Light’ (2026) – are often emotional representations of how a flower or plant expresses itself. Colour is central to her work, as she strives to capture nature’s personality – as well as mythology, symbolism and music, which are all intertwined in her practice. We love seeing the natural world through Rosie’s lens.
4. Studio Lenca
Jose Campos (a.k.a. Studio Lenca) is “an artist that doesn’t belong anywhere apart from the world he creates.” We wish we could step right into this particular painting—Quiet River—with its rich blue hues and sense of peaceful reflection. Working under the name Studio Lenca, Jose explains that “Studio” refers to a space for experimentation, while “Lenca” connects him to the Mesoamerican Indigenous people of eastern El Salvador. As a child, he was forcibly displaced from El Salvador due to the country’s violent civil war, and much of his work now explores themes around this. The subjects – sharply dressed in colourful outfits and hats – stare out from the canvas, holding our gaze. Proud, courageous and visible; all the things that a young Studio Lenca couldn’t be.
5. Ciara Quilty-Harper
We’re always drawn to Ciara Quilty-Harper’s hazy close-ups – so rich in colour and atmosphere. Based in Barcelona, Ciara is an English-Irish artist and illustrator working entirely by hand and turning a cinematic lens on her surroundings, distilling fleeting moments into luminous impressions. Working by hand is crucial to her process; the tools and pigments have their own plans for the outcome and allow her to embrace unexpected results.
See Ciara’s work in her up-coming show ‘Side of a Hill’ (21st May-1st June) at The Pie Factory in Margate – a joint exhibition with her father Dominic Harper. The show is the culmination of over a decade of drawings and paintings inspired by a former farmhouse the pair used to visit.
6. Geoffroy Pithon
Geoffroy Pithon is a multidisciplinary artist based in Nantes, France. At the intersection of art and design, the French painter brings together non-traditional means of communication with graphic experiments – creating joyful, hugely expressive artworks in his masterful colour palette. He is currently part of a new group show ‘The Open Wound’ in Venice as part of the biennial – curated by Selcan Atilgan, which opened last week and runs until 30th May (at Palazzo Nani Bernardo). Geoffroy is presenting five new large scale artworks, including this fantastic piece.
